English Literature in Illustrations

English Literature in Illustrations

Middle Ages Canterbury pilgrim badge

Middle Ages Martyrdom of Thomas Becket.

Middle Ages Woodcut of the Knight from The Canterbury Tales. c. 1490.

16th Century "Temptation of St. Anthony" from Jacques Callot's Miroir De Son Temps.

16th Century Edward VI and the Pope: An Allegory of the Reformation (circa 1568–71)

16th Century Mary, Queen of Scots, the object of England's "Rough Wooing."

Early 17th Century Creation of Adam. Michelangelo (1475–1564)

Early 17th Century King's and Queen's costumes. Inigo Jones.

Early 17th Century Sketches of Irish costumes by Lucas de Heere

Restoration and the 18th Century London ladies shopping for fabric

Restoration and the 18th Century Examining a slave

Restoration and the 18th Century APhilosopher Giving That Lecture on the Orrery, in Which a Lamp Is Put in Place of the Sun (1766). Joseph Wright

Romantic Period From p. 4 of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake

Romantic Period Percy Bysshe Shelley (ca. 1829)

Romantic Period Illustration from Lalla Rookh, 1817.

Victorian Age Hard Times (1885). Hubert von Herkomer.

Victorian Age The first women students to be admitted to the University of Cambridge, photographed at Hitchin, 1869

Victorian Age Queen Victoria and her servant Abdul Karim, 1893.

20th Century Trains piled with refugees in Amritsar, India (1947)

20th Century Smoke billows over a landscape under fire from a United States Air Force B-25 bomber (ca. 1940).

20th Century William Butler Yeats (ca. 1930). Ireland